Source: FARM PROGRESS, 9/17/13

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scored a victory when a district court ruled in its favor for figuring total maximum daily loads for livestock in and around the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The American Farm Bureau Federation and other interested groups had filed suit against the measure in an effort to stop the move on TMDLs for the region that some say could end livestock production in the area.

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